I've installed X11 server through XDarwin. Will the installation of
PyMOL for OS X described on your web page work with XDarwin's
implementation of X11 or do I have to install Apple's version. Is
there any advantage in installing Apple's X11? Will Apple X11
installation overwrite XDarwin?
Craig,
Fink-installed PyMOL will work with Fink's Xfree86, but you should use
Apple X11 since - as other people previously reported - is way faster.
Although you can in principle install Apple's X11on top of Fink's, this
can lead to really weird phenomena (or at least it did on my Mac; I
assume this happened since both use /usr/X11R6); besides, Fink won't
know of Apple X11 until you tell it about it.
To do so, you first need to get rid of Fink's Xfree86 installations:
sudo dpkg -r --force-depends xfree86-rootless xfree86-rootless-shlibs
xfree86-base xfree86-base-shlibs
then install Apple X11 (BOTH the user and the SDK packages) by
double-clicking on the installers and following the prompts.
Finally, tell Fink to look for it:
fink install system-xfree86
which should happily find your Apple installation and configure Fink
stuff accordingly...
Hope this helps,
ciao Luca
